Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Managed WebSocket without vendor lockin
While I was building Neeyer (https://neeyer.com), a location based social app, which I'll do another post later. I found it hard to find a managed Websocket service without vendor lock-in. So I built myws.dev and been using it for my app. I know this is something I'd use myself (and I AM using it). So I hope this helps you too focus on your own app instead of infrastructure.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Managed WebSocket without vendor lockin launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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myws.dev▲66Add WebSocket to your app within 5 min, no vendor lock-in
2022 · myws.dev · its alternatives →
- 2DA
Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB. In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide https://jamsocket.live where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY). You may have seen my…
2023 · driftdb.com · its alternatives →
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An demo app for lattice-core. Contribute to jasonl99/card_game development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I’m Brad, one of the creators of Superblocks and a YC alum, excited to share our internal tooling IDE. As developers ourselves, we faced the problem of building tons of internal admin UIs, backends to connect siloed data, reporting jobs, and data pipelines. For UIs we would build one-off React components. For integrations, we would have to decipher vendor docs and implement auth. Finally, for reporting jobs we had to handle failures and observability – many hours of repetitive engineering effort. So we built Superblocks, an internal tooling IDE to connect to any datasource…
2022 · superblocks.com · its alternatives →
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Excited to share the project I've been working on for the past 7 months! We've seen nearly weekly attacks against the open source software supply chain. I saw the seeds of this trend start in the mid 2015s as an open source maintainer and I've watched it only get worse over the years. I finally decided to try to solve this problem. Socket is taking an entirely new approach to one of the hardest problems in security in a stagnant part of the industry that has historically been obsessed with just reporting on known vulnerabilities. Unlike other scanning tools, Socket actually analyzes the…
2022 · socket.dev · its alternatives →
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Blackbell▲148Create booking websites & marketplaces, without code
2024 · blackbell.com · its alternatives →
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Latchkey▲122Hi HN, At Imbue, we’ve been following the rapid developments in the agent landscape and noticed that the way agents interact with third-party services on users’ behalf often leaves a lot to be desired. Integrations are ad hoc, complicated, context-heavy, and either unfriendly to non-technical users or tied to a lock-in of some sort. We‘re experimenting with a command-line tool, Latchkey, that could be used by local agents targeted at non-technical users while avoiding remote intermediaries. As far as we know, this is the only existing approach at the intersection of these two goals. Core…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Lockbox is a forward proxy for making third party API calls. - mkjt2/lockbox
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a DNS resolver that lets me use https://frontend.numa instead of localhost:5173 — auto-generated TLS certs, WebSocket passthrough, path routing. No mkcert, no nginx, no /etc/hosts.
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Jsblocks▲97Faster than AngularJS and ReactJS. Better MV-ish Framework.
2015 · jsblocks.com · its alternatives →
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Minimal and idiomatic WebSocket library for Go. Contribute to coder/websocket development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 13SP
I built this pubsub module because I wanted a simple solution that uses only node. Why did I want pubsub? I wanted to build a complex app but segregate it into microservices that work together through event messages. I also wanted to use this method instead of node's built-in clustering for multiple instances. I've been running it for a few weeks now with several messages per second bugfree. I plan to use this setup for future apps as it reduces complexity of the code and allows me to restart/update one part of the app without interrupting the other parts. I would love to receive…
2022 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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AppRun database-driven application using WebSockets without REST API - GitHub - yysun/apprun-websockets-sqlite: AppRun database-driven application using WebSockets without REST API
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'm the founder at Netrinos. I built a WireGuard-based mesh VPN because remote access has always been a pain. After years of SSH tunnels, IPsec headaches, and the ssh log horror movie, I wanted something simpler: install, sign in, get work done. Netrinos creates a LAN-like overlay network across your devices. Connections are direct P2P via WireGuard, with no central server routing traffic. Each device gets a stable IP and DNS name (pc.you.netrinos.com). When direct connections fail, they fall back to a relay server that's still encrypted end-to-end. We can't see your traffic. The most…
Dec 2025 · netrinos.com · its alternatives →
- 16FR
Deliver real-time data and low-latency WebSockets & pub/sub at the edge with Fastly. Scale chat, IoT, live apps and messaging with a self-managed infrastructure.
2017 · fanout.io · its alternatives →
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Uniblock▲17Manage all of your blockchain data providers in one platform
2024 · uniblock.dev · its alternatives →
- 18AS
This is a proof of concept utility which allows you to expose local services to the internet at large: https://github.com/skx/tunneller In short it is a simple ngrok alternative, which you can self-host. Because it is a proof of concept it hasn't been tested extensively, but it seems like it will solve my immediate-needs. Of course it needs test, and structure added. But feedback can't hurt :)
2019 · its alternatives →
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Execute php files over websocket connection. Contribute to nemiah/phpOverWebsocket development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 20DB
Google’s recent announcement of a proposed ‘Device Bound Session Credentials’ feature[1] for Chrome reminded me of a project we worked on last year at my company. We focus on fraud prevention at signup and login (preventing multi-accounting and account theft), but some customers were concerned about post-login security and asked us to add a session hijacking prevention feature to our fraud prevention API. In the end, we decided to just implement a solution in Javascript. We call it session-lock, and it can be used today across all browsers[2] and, theoretically, native mobile apps. For a…
2024 · session-lock.keyri.com · its alternatives →
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Hey! I'm a solo developer having fun learning Go. I have a side hustle and wanted to implement currency localization. I could use existing IP databases, but hosting on serverless is slow. So I built my own. I was surprised how fun it can be to use Go, and it's fast. Thankfully, Go's speed makes up for my dodgy code. Anyway, I'd love to get some feedback on my website/API. After a few weeks of testing and losing money on ads, I'm confident it's very reliable. This isn't a promo. It's basicly free (30k lookups/month), so there's no need to pay. Any advice or tips on how to grow and…
2024 · ipflare.io · its alternatives →
- 22WH
Hi All ,I been working on my idea , A Voice CRM solution for 2 years.When I started brainstorming the idea the only option I have to receive phone calls thru browser was a flash widget or use 3rd party providers like Twilio or Phono . Thanks to WebRTC we now integrated our VoIP services to receive and make calls directly thru browser .Please have a look and give us your feedback .Thanks Voz.io Team .
2013 · voz.io · its alternatives →
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301 Moved to http://github.com/daraosn/mustekala. Contribute to daraosn/node-puller development by creating an account on GitHub.
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'd like to share a small Go utility I wrote called prxy. The idea was born out of my frustration with accessing my self-hosted services when I'm on the go. I use WireGuard to connect to my homelab, but I really dislike sending all my computer's traffic through my home network — it slows things down and is inconvenient. I wanted proper application-level split-tunneling. A tool I love, wireproxy, got me most of the way there by creating an HTTP proxy from a WireGuard peer. This is perfect for apps that let you configure a proxy. The problem was the other 10%: apps that don't. Think of…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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